The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-22
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| ADDISON CAMMAoK, says the New York Times
was one of the well-known New Workers who
| proited by the smashup of the Chicago clique
| wheat deal
ALTHOUGH the net annual income of the
government on imports from Canada is nearly
s. 100000. yet in the Dunkirk, n. Y, district Il
cost sl2 to collect 81, and in the Montana dis
trict it cost Sl66 % TO collect 81.
THE dudes of Chicago appear to possess more
originality of conception and vigor of execution
| in the matter of dress than dudes in general
| A newspaper of that city has discovered one OF
the inane fraternity who decorates his whiskers
| with scarlet ribbons.
THE stories of the success of Buffalo Bill il
| London, both Electrically and socially speak
ing, have not been one whit exaggerated. Al
the letters from London are in the same vein
| One letter from Cody himself tells of his future
| plans They embrace fall season in Paris and
| a winter season In the ruins of the Coliseum IN
| Rome Imagine the cowboys of the wild West
| cavortlng about the huge circle in which the
! gagements for three years in Europe, each OF
which is worth half million in profits.
THE right TO manufacture and sell the proprie.
tary medicines owned by the heirs of the late
Dr. John Bull, of Louisville, Ky, was purchased
at public sale Wednesday, in Louisville. by a
! leading patent medicine firm in Cincinnati for
$4,000. The income from these medicines was
/
ton, O., Nashville, Tenn, and New York city
were represented at the sale. Louisville was the
| next highest bidder at 100000. The large sum
realized was a surprise to the heirs, who fanced,
| it Is said, that only about $4,000 would be
| realized.
| IT is said mahogany was first known to Euro
peans through the fact that Sir Walter Raleigh,
when at Trinidad in 1895, used planks of it to re-
| pair one of his vessels. The samples thus car
| ried to England were much admired, but for
| over 100 years it was put to no practical use.
In 1720, howeyr, a DR.. Gibbons, of London, re-
ceived few mahogany planks from friend in
| the West Indies, and employed a cabinet maker
! to work them up. From that time to the pres
| ent the wood has been a staple article of com
merce. So far the supplies have practically all
come from Spanish America but there is some
possibility that other sections may contribute to
the supply. Mahogany, though of an inferior
quality, has been shipped from Africa, and GER
tain parts of India have proved to be adapted to
its growth. Mahogany is of slow growth.
THE Paris correspondent of the Lancet writes:
1T is somewhat CHASTITY that one Of the official
medical advisers to the administration of the
Opera Comique should be the Professor of Pub
lie Health at the School of Medicine Perhaps
this calamity will prompt him to ascertain
whether there are any other duties attached to
the post than those which consist in applauding
the actors once or twice a month, and occasion
ally prescribing orange-hower water for a lady
of the troupe suffering from her flerfs The
papers published note upon an examination of
the blood of the victims, said to have been made
at the morgue by NJ. Brouardel, and which
would show that death occurred in three differ
ent ways ~ from fright; (2) from esphyxia by
| carbonic acid; 49, by asphyxia from carhonic
oxide. Apparently no one was crushed TO DEATH
which is scarcely likely"
THE German poet Bodenstedt relates in re-
cent article that he first met Turgeneff at
Munich in 1860, and found him a most genial
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Heyse, with whom he subsequently, cores
ponded and in subsequent visits to Munich he
became acquainted with most of the literary
tribe in the Bavarian capital. The Russian nov
elist was pleased to find that his German col
leagues were familiar with Transitions of some
of his works but he was singularly free from
vanity. He spoke of his first poetic efforts
which had no success, which did not come to
him till he turned to prose; and he regretted
that he could not have succeeded as poet be-
cause the highest things are inaccessible to
prose. For instance, he said. we could not con-
ceive of Goethe's nlasterwork in prose. Faust
was his favorite poem, and the first part of it he
knew almost entirely by heart. 49,
A BRILLIANT WEDDING which took place in
Louisville, KY, Wednesday, was that of Mr.
Bland Ballard son of the late Bland Ballard, of
the United States Circuit Court, and Miss Adele
Shreve, youngest daughter of Mrs Belle Sheri-
dan Shreve, who as Miss Belle Sheridan will be
remembered as the famous Louisville beauty of
ante bellum days. The BRIDES costume was an
elaborate one of white satin and lace, with a
veil of beautiful old lace. Mrs. Shreve, the
mother of the bride, is still beautiful woman,
and belongs to family of beautiful women, of
which her daughter, the bride, is perfect ex-
ample. The young couple have gone on a
bridal tour to the East. A notable wedding
| took place in Louisville on Tuesday, the CON
tracing parties being Miss Susie Brent Haggin
and Mr.. Horace Cade Prince, representatives of
two of the oldest and proudest families in the
South
CAPT. WYNN, who commanded the Sumter
Light Guards, was killed at the battle of Gettys-
burg. One morning, says the Americas Ca
Recorder, the one after that battle, his wife.
who lived in this place, entered her parlor,
where upon the wall had hung a handsome
painting of her husband. AS she glanced up she
was horror-stricken on seeing that the painting
had fallen from the wall, and, in doing so, the
face had been pierced by a chair post which
stood beneath where it had hung. Rushing from
the house. she went at once to a neighbor and
| related the occurrence, adding that She firmly
believed the Captain had been killed in the fight
of the day previous. On the arrival Of the train
news of the battle was brought and among the
first names in the list Of those killed was that of
her gallant husband The strangest feature
about the killing, however, was that he had
been shot in the face in the identical spot where
the chair-poSt had pierced the canvas.
MENTION has been made by us more than once
OF the invention of a cable by NJ Fortin- Herr
mann, of France, by which telephone commu-
nication can be had with distant points 1t was
over the newly-invented cable that the King of
Belgium was able during the winter TO hear at
Brussels the rendering of an opera at the Grand
Opera House in Paris. The agent of NJ Fortin-
Hermann has suggested to P. T. Barnum to
join in an enterprise by which the Grand Opera
performances can be transmitted nightly from
Paris to New York, The estimate for the cable
Is Sl5.o00OOO. The company proposes to charge
200 persons the sum of So for each act of the
opera given, and TO use the cable during the day
for ordinary business between the countries
The Bridgeport Comm STANDARD, which prints
the agents letter to Mr. Barnum, says that the
veteran Snowman has instructed his Paris
agents to investigate the affair The story
smacks of certain advertising methods, but Is
given by us for what it is worth, and as it an
pears in the Standard
A MANUSCRIPT of great rarity and interest was
sold the other day at the Hotel Drouot for a
high price. 1t was an essay written by the great
Napoleon in his college days. 1t bore the date
and the occasion of the composition, having
been written in 1885, when young Bonaparte
was passing his summer holidays at Aiaccio
The essay was a history of Corsica and II occu
pied eight pages of close MS. It Is full of had
grammar, and abounds in instances of bad
spelling, and is moreover, written In fervid adj.
miration OF the Jacobinism which was then